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It was another chastening Guineas weekend for British stables. Both classics
were exported again — the sixth time in eight years for the Qipco 2,000
Guineas and the fifth in eight for the 1,000. Yet the monopoly exerted by
Aidan O’Brien this year must have left an especially hollow feel in one
exalted corner of Newmarket.

Sir Michael Stoute was not conquered in the classics, he conceded. There have
been other years with no Guineas runners from Freemason Lodge but prevailing
circumstances drew attention to it this time, particularly as the yard
dispatched not a single horse to a seven-race Sunday